Download cancer webquest - Ms. Schaller Science

Name:_____________________
CANCER WEBQUEST
Instructions: Go to stonescience.shutterfly.com, click on the Biology Resources tab, then on Cancer
Webquest (under Useful Websites for Biology). Next, click on Hallmarks of Cancer and navigate through
each of the tabs on the left to answer the questions below.
CANCER OVERVIEW:
1. Where can cancer, or tumors, occur in the body? ________________________________________________
2. Solid tumors form ________________ while liquid tumors __________________________________________
3. How do cancers start? ___________________________________________________________________________
4. What percent of cancers are genetically inherited? ____________________
5. As we age, we accumulate more and more mutations. What does this explain?
GROWING UNCONTROLLABLY:
6. How or why do cancer cells grow?
EVADING DEATH:
7. How do cancer cells avoid death?
8. What is apoptosis?
PROCESSING NUTRIENTS:
9. How do cancer cells survive? What must they take in and attract?
BECOMING IMMORTAL:
10. The age of a cell and its ability to divide is related to what? Explain.
11. Explain how telomerase enables cancer cells.
Name:_____________________
INVADING TISSUES:
12. What is 90% of death from human cancers due to?
AVOIDING DETECTION: Skip
PROMOTING MUTATIONS: Skip
Click on the CAUSES & PREVENTION section and answer the following questions.
13. What percent of cancer does pollution, food additives, and industrial wastes have an effect on?
14. Click on the arrow in the Cancer Epidemiology box. Read the information for each type of cancer and
fill out the chart below:
Cancer Type:
Areas with the highest
rates of that cancer:
Explain why those areas have the highest rates: